WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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A North American Aviation worker preparing a P-51 Mustang fighter for painting, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942; note B-25 Mitchell bombers in background	A worker of the North American Aviation factory in Inglewood, California, United States operating a drop hammer that made sheet metal parts for aircraft production, Oct 1942

American woman riveting join sections of wing ribs that would later go into a B-17F Flying Fortress bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942	American woman working at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942

American woman working with electrical wiring at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942	American women building a A-20 Havoc bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942

American women working in the interior of the tail section of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942	An American woman being trained as an aircraft engine mechanic at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942

An American woman working on the landing gear of a P-51 Mustang aircraft at the North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane being prepared for wind tunnel tests at the North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942

Assembling B-25 Mitchell bombers at North American Aviation's Fairfax Airport plant in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, Oct 1942	B-25 Mitchell bomber being prepared for painting by North American Aviation's female workers, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942

B-25 Mitchell bomber being pulled outside the North American Aviation plant at Kansas City, Kansas, United States, Oct 1942	British paratrooper with a Sten gun in training in Britain, circa late 1942

Consolidated Aircraft Corporation workers, Fort Worth, Texas, United States, Oct 1942; note P-51B or P-51C Mustang fighter at right	Cowling and control rods being added to engines for B-25 bombers at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942

Douglas Aircraft Company employee working on the port engine of a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942	Early P-51 Mustang during a test flight near the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942

Employees of American Aviation, Inc. working with sheet metal, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942; note woman working on pneumatic numbering machine	Escort carrier USS Santee in Oct 1942, probably in Bermuda, preparing to cross the Atlantic for the Operation Torch landings in North Africa. Note SBD Dauntless, F4F Wildcat, and TBF Avenger aircraft on the flight deck.